[Mana gives them coins to encourage interpersonal connection, engagement with what happens, and they fall for it...they form bonds, and learn new ways to be hurt, or they make enemies, and generate suffering for free...
It's a neat, tidy, efficient system. As neat as the god factions, that reward division and revenge.
But he doesn't say all that out loud. She's not listening, she's not going to join him in despair, and maybe that's good, or maybe it's bad, but it's out of his hands. She's written him off as so tired he's become upset, so...
He looks down at the three-quarters empty glass by his hand.]
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...the kind where the feelings are real.
[Mana gives them coins to encourage interpersonal connection, engagement with what happens, and they fall for it...they form bonds, and learn new ways to be hurt, or they make enemies, and generate suffering for free...
It's a neat, tidy, efficient system. As neat as the god factions, that reward division and revenge.
But he doesn't say all that out loud. She's not listening, she's not going to join him in despair, and maybe that's good, or maybe it's bad, but it's out of his hands. She's written him off as so tired he's become upset, so...
He looks down at the three-quarters empty glass by his hand.]
I could sleep.